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the sands of time
idiom literary
used as a way of referring to time, especially to the fact that it passes quickly:
This is the best chance the ageing player has of holding back the sands of time.
The small Chicago theatre has, incredibly, beaten back the shifting sands of time and high rents to survive for more than 25 years.
The sands of time are finally running out on the club's golden age.
Really, the only lasting footprints we leave on the sands of time are our children.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Spending time & time passing
all the time in the worldidiom
Anno Domini
drag on
elapse
employ
fall
gone
kill time, an hour, etc.idiom
misspend
pass
roll
roll by
run out
serve
slip
slip away
tick
timekeeper
wear on
while something away
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